Whietletree-hook



NEWMAN, 2nd, WHITGOMB & COLE.

Patented Feb.- 21-, 1854:.

NJPHERS, PNOT HER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES i MARTIN'NEWMAN, 21), AND o. WHITCOMB, or LANESBORO',PENNSYLVANIA, ANDJG'LI-CQ com, or HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

WHIFFLETREE-I-IOOK.

v Specification of Letters Patent No,

ford and State of Connecticut, have in-@ vented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of ,Whiflletrees, Draw-Irons for Traces, which may be attached to Neck-Yokes, also the Ends of Wagon Tongues and Shafts; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this SPGCIfiCH". tion,. in which Figure l is a perspective view showin the J r Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the center.

Similar letters of reference indicate cor responding parts in each ofthe several figures.

The nature of our lnventlon co-nslsts of a.

metal socket either brass or iron or other metallic substance, so constructed that it will make a safe, convenient, and durable fas ten'ing for whifiletrees, cockeyes, draw-irons on axles, hold ,backirons on shafts, neckyoke fastener, also to attach to the end of: Wagon tongues. v p

The socket terminates with'a hook or loop 1 and is provided with a spring bolt or latchturning or swinging 011 a center pin, and latching in a recess or notch in sucha manner that the traces or other parts will be in no danger of becoming unhooked, and is more fully explained as follows 'I A, A, represents the socket and B the" hook or loop at the end of the socket.

C is a lip or catch on the end of the.

hook B.

D is the bolt or latch turning or swinging upon the pin G. This latch terminates with the spring F and thumb piece or button E.

H represents a portion of the whiffletree,

with thetenon Linserted in the socket A, A.

10,551, dated -February-21,-'1854.

- j I is; a notchtor-v recess of corresponding widthto the spring-F.

' J ,J are small projections that form the notch I, andv over which-the spring F slides and drops into the notch I.

The. operation of this, safety fastener is as follows: In Fig. lythe latch D, with the spring F, is represented as being turned partly around leaving the hook B openifor f the reception of the-cockeye of thetrace.

,The trace is now hooked on at B, the latch .D is brought around under the lip of the hook C, which latches the spring F into-the notch I, where the latch D and the spring F are firmly held in this'position by the projections J, J, and the'pin G, as seen in Fig.

'21; To unhook the trace lift up the'thumb P1606 which raises the spring F above the projections J, J, swing the latch to one side which le'avesjthe hook B open for disengaging theItrace; 'What we claim as our invention vand desire to secure by .LettersPatent is The construction of a trace fastener on the ends of a whiifletree consisting of a fswing latch D turning on a'pin G, detents J J, and spring F in combination with a hook B and .catch or detentc thereon, operating in the manner and for the purpose of preventing the accidental displacement of the cockeye on-the end'of the trace.

We do not confine our claim to the use of the socket inconnection with the spring latch arrangement as thespring latch and hook maybe usedieitheraon a socket plate or shank, as occasion I may require or in any other manner substantlally. as .setforth.

MARTIN NEWMAN, a. N. o. 'WHITCOMB. G. o. COLE.

Witnesses :1

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